Oregon Ambulatory Surgery Center Infection Prevention & Control Toolkit
The Oregon Ambulatory Surgery Center Infection Prevention & Control Toolkit is specifically designed to provide guidance on the development and implementation of infection prevention programs that meet infection control standards outlined in Medicare’s Conditions of Coverage and State of Oregon administrative rules. The toolkit was developed by the Oregon Patient Safety Commission to help Oregon’s ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) implement infection prevention quality improvement projects, reduce infection risks, and better protect patients.
Oregon Adverse Event Disclosure Guide
A RESOURCE FOR PHYSICIANS AND HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS
The Oregon Adverse Event Disclosure Guide is intended to help Oregon’s physicians and healthcare organizations better understand the purpose of disclosure and provide resources to help develop and improve disclosure programs in Oregon healthcare organizations. The guide is organized in a question-and-answer format to help readers navigate to useful information.
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Putting Safe Surgery Checklists to Use
Hospitals
Some time ago, The New England Journal of Medicine reported that use of a simple checklist significantly reduces surgical complications and death. As of November 2010, all of Oregon’s 56 acute-care hospitals that perform surgery were using the checklist or pursing checklist implementation.
Press Release: Oregon Hospitals Make Surgery Safer
Oregon Map of Checklist Adoption
Oregon IHI Network Safe Surgical Checklist (adapted from the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist)
Ambulatory Surgery Centers
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is calling on all ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) to use a safe surgical checklist starting in 2012.
